Celebrate New Year With The IGN Cocktail

The guys behind the amazing gaming bar Loading in Falmouth have created the official IGN cocktail (no, it's not the Floradora) to help you see in the New Year with us in style.

The IGN-ition

The home of gaming-inspired cocktails including The Ocarina of Lime, Earthworm Gin, and Bioshock: Sugar and Splice, Loading has worked with Ubisoft, Capcom, Turtle Beach and Game City this year crafting unique drinks inspired by the world of video games.

Bar owner James Dance has come up with the IGN-ition, an indulgent drink guaranteed to give you an extra life this New Year, just don't blame the hangover on us!

"I thought using fire was a bit too obvious," says James, "So I moved away from that and went with the more NYE ingredient of sparkling wine. But as it's for IGN, drawing inspiration from the contents of Stuart Reid's hip flask, there's a shooter which is a Long Island Ice Tea, minus the Vodka."

Ingredients

For the tall drink: Red Bull Champagne/Sparkling Wine Vodka

For the short: Gin Rum (Overproof) Tequila Gin Triple Sec Grenadine

The IGN-ition - Prepped and ready to drink!

In the tall glass you have a 50/50 mix of Red Bull and sparkling wine with a single measure of Vodka (25ml). For the shooter (also 25ml total), start with the grenadine to give it that signature IGN red colouring, then just layer the other drinks on top. If health and safety allows, people can light the shooter or just drop it into the tall drink and down, then maybe tell your friends to start ringing a taxi as too many will lead to carnage.

Unchartini Recipe

Following a suggestion by Dan Hyde on Twitter, James has also created a Nathan Drake inspired cocktail christened the Unchartini.

Dan Hyde's Unchartini

It's a different version of the recent Uncharted: Drinks Deception but rather than Goldschläger we layered spiced rum on top of ginger beer and then a healthy dose of overproof rum and lit. Blow out and add a squeeze of lime to finish.

Of course, IGN asks that you remember to drink responsibly over New Year. For more information about Loading, their cocktails, coffee and arcade visit drinkrelaxplay.co.uk, or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.